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Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Edinburgh, Scotland

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Scotland celebrates The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in front of Edinburgh Castle from August 4 through 26. At the country’s biggest music festival, started in 1950, military bands display their talents – as well as many a fine leg beneath a kilt.

Solar slug

He’s only five millimeters long and resembles a cartoon lamb, but costasiella kurshimae (leaf sheep) is smart. One of the few creatures capable of photosynthesis, it grazes on algae, for example, off the coast of Japan.